Thanks for downloading Log4j 2 and working with it! RollingFileAppender currently doesn't support a listener but I see no reason it couldn't. Feel free to create a Jira issue for this feature. If you would like to implement it as well that would be fantastic!
Ralph On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Tushar Kapila wrote: > Happy to have downloaded the alpha sources using wget (wget is nifty worked > on windows too : wget -e robots=off --cut-dirs=3 -r -p -np > --no-check-certificate > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachelogging-009/org/apache/logging/log4j/) > and making my first test project with log4j2 ! > > Upgraded the conf to write to a rolling file. > > *Ralph : *Where can we learn about using the rolling file manager? can a > class subscribe to roll events so we can do custom tasks for old files > (like pack them up in to a password protected zip and store in an alternate > location, when the number of files is more than 300 ? The listener would > count the number of files etc but the log4j rolling manager should take > care of 'missing files' as we would delete them after archiving). if it > does not have support for this could you add it? > > The conf I used : > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <configuration status="debug"> > <appenders> > <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT"> > <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - > %msg%n"/> > </Console> > > <RollingFile name="Rolling-1" fileName="logs/a.log" > filePattern="logs/test1-${sd:type}.%i.log.gz"> > <PatternLayout> > <pattern>%d %p %C [%t] %m%n</pattern> <!-- %d %p %C{1.} > [%t] %m%n --> > </PatternLayout> > <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="500" /> > <!-- want to hook a class here to listen to rolling events after they occur > --> > </RollingFile> > > </appenders> > <loggers> > <root level="debug"> > <appender-ref ref="Console"/> > <appender-ref ref="Rolling-1"/> > </root> > </loggers> > </configuration> > > *Users : *For anyone interested - here is the source of the eclipse project > http://sel2in.com/pages/log4j/ , with config xml and java files. All it > needs are the log4j jars that you can get from > http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/ if the site does not open try after an > hour ... :) might be down for temporary maintenance. > > Regards > Tushar Kapila --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org
